Al-Ain Zoo confirmed that the cheetah which escaped from his owner house and caught by authority officers died.

Last week, a five-month old cheetah, somehow, managed to escape its cage and ran away from his owner's house. It kept roaming in Al-Ain city streets and its touring ended in breaking out and sneaking into Emirati family house while they are inside.

Both cats did well on the trip from Ohio to The Wildcat Sanctuary in Minnesota and the team drove the 15-hour journey without incident, stopping off every few hours to check on the cats and to give them water and a snack. Waiting for daylight, the cats were finally offloaded to be released into their new enclosures.

All around Australia oil and gas companies are closing in on vital whale habitats. Any day now leases covering endangered blue whale habitat and right next to calving grounds for endangered southern right whales will be handed over to oil and gas companies to explore with their deafening seismic airguns and accompanying vessels. Bidding closes today for another adjacent lease area over blue whale feeding habitat and next month another blue whale feeding ground in the same Bonney Upwelling area will be up for grabs for petroleum exploration.

The Kenya Wildlife Service and the International Fund for Animal Welfare recently collared nine elephants to track their movements that will assist in mapping out elephant migratory corridors and equip the park's management to mitigate human-elephant conflict and mount security operations against poachers. By chance, one of the elephants was found with two spearheads embedded in its body--a case of either conflict with humans or poaching.

Sometimes you are just so unaware of your size and energy level that you don’t notice the affect you have on others. That might be a good introduction to Dozer. Or should I say, that might be a good example of Dozer’s excited introduction style. He just loves life and he is looking for someone to love him in an equally big way. Is it you…?